Google has exported the latest PR values to the toolbar today. Both Access Database Security and SliQTools are winners with PR increases from 0 to 2 and from 3 to 4 respectively but again this blog didn't get assigned a PR.
Have you noticed changes on any other sites?
by ML
Saturday, 27 September 2008
Saturday, 20 September 2008
Whats an unreasonable amount of programs on a download site for an author?
I did a keep clean up job a few months back and deleted authors who had lots of programs on softtester. I can't remember the figure I deleted from.
However I've noticed a lot of credit site listings etc again.
So I plan to limit the amount of programs an author can have on one email address.
I know that the author could then have more that one email address, but I figure since some sites require listings to be activated, its probably too much hassle for a spammer to have lots of email addresses. But I may be wrong.
At the moment I have 50 authors with over 100 programs some with a lot more than that.
I'm thinking 50 or 25 sounds about reasonable?
I guess I could limit things further and say they can only have x number of programs in a category.
However I've noticed a lot of credit site listings etc again.
So I plan to limit the amount of programs an author can have on one email address.
I know that the author could then have more that one email address, but I figure since some sites require listings to be activated, its probably too much hassle for a spammer to have lots of email addresses. But I may be wrong.
At the moment I have 50 authors with over 100 programs some with a lot more than that.
I'm thinking 50 or 25 sounds about reasonable?
I guess I could limit things further and say they can only have x number of programs in a category.
Friday, 19 September 2008
My first C# program
Well I've now read 3 hours of my teach yourself C# book.
I've found it really hard to keep awake, not learnt that much so far.
Taken me ages to motivate myself to keep going.
Anyways, I thought I'd try and write a small program to see how far I could go.
I'm stuck already, having difficulty creating a function, or what I'd think of as a function in vb.
I googled and found someone saying that you can't do functions in C#.
That seems weird.
So, I guess I'm a bit more motivated to read further in my book.
Otherwise I'll not be able to finish my program :(
by
JM
I've found it really hard to keep awake, not learnt that much so far.
Taken me ages to motivate myself to keep going.
Anyways, I thought I'd try and write a small program to see how far I could go.
I'm stuck already, having difficulty creating a function, or what I'd think of as a function in vb.
I googled and found someone saying that you can't do functions in C#.
That seems weird.
So, I guess I'm a bit more motivated to read further in my book.
Otherwise I'll not be able to finish my program :(
by
JM
Sunday, 14 September 2008
Free article sites
At least a year ago, I read about free article sites and added some article pages to my kids mask factory site. Aaron just emailed me, he'd done a personal search and found one of my articles.
I guess there is some value is having these pages, but I'm not sure whether such pages lead to sales. But are these pages valuable for an SEO / Google point of view?
Maybe I should add some free articles to my other sites?
I guess I know the answer to this question, these articles haven't led to a massive raise in sales, although I can't really tell.
by
JM
I guess there is some value is having these pages, but I'm not sure whether such pages lead to sales. But are these pages valuable for an SEO / Google point of view?
Maybe I should add some free articles to my other sites?
I guess I know the answer to this question, these articles haven't led to a massive raise in sales, although I can't really tell.
by
JM
Friday, 12 September 2008
Adwords Tool, competition indication, whats good ?
We've been using the adwords keyword tool to try and find good keywords. My initial thoughts where that I should avoid ANYTHING with any competition but have at least a thousand search volume.
However, Aaron found a video on how to use the tool and this changed our / my understanding of it.
Heres the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDB6T_L-mqs.
In the video it says you should have around 100,000 search volume and the guy ignored the competition indicator.
Mike, whats your understanding / thoughts?
I'm not thinking I should have waited with my directory submission until I'd found good keywords to use in the links, however I can now change them I guess, so it doesn't look like I've got lots of the same.
by
JM
EDIT: I've also learned from the video, that you REALLY need to know your keywords and near keywords, I mean, I did realise this to a certain extent, but this guy knows numbers too. I think I'm going to have to keep records, I just don't know what. Although, I guess keyword / phrase and search volume, would be start.
However, Aaron found a video on how to use the tool and this changed our / my understanding of it.
Heres the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDB6T_L-mqs.
In the video it says you should have around 100,000 search volume and the guy ignored the competition indicator.
Mike, whats your understanding / thoughts?
I'm not thinking I should have waited with my directory submission until I'd found good keywords to use in the links, however I can now change them I guess, so it doesn't look like I've got lots of the same.
by
JM
EDIT: I've also learned from the video, that you REALLY need to know your keywords and near keywords, I mean, I did realise this to a certain extent, but this guy knows numbers too. I think I'm going to have to keep records, I just don't know what. Although, I guess keyword / phrase and search volume, would be start.
Well done to BlueSkiMoney
Well done to BlueSkiMoney aka Aaron, We've been chatting about SEO and using the adwords tool and watching some howto videos from youtube and last night hes, produced what I think is a well SEO page.
http://www.burnyourvinyls.com/audio-adaptors/2-5-to-3-5-adaptor-headphones-adaptor-mobile-phone-adapter/prod_11.php
Having said this there is always room improvement, he could do with more content and some internal links and of course some incoming links to that page or more probable his home page.
Anyways I think this first good attempt.
by
JM
http://www.burnyourvinyls.com/audio-adaptors/2-5-to-3-5-adaptor-headphones-adaptor-mobile-phone-adapter/prod_11.php
Having said this there is always room improvement, he could do with more content and some internal links and of course some incoming links to that page or more probable his home page.
Anyways I think this first good attempt.
by
JM
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Going along with the traffic
I may be imagining things, but I've noticed something funny with the traffic to my main site in the last few weeks. For most of the last 6 months, visitors to my main site followed the same pattern - up on specific days of the week, down on certain others, up at certain times of day and so on. This pattern was as reliable as clockwork.
In the last 5 to 6 weeks however, the pattern has changed. Days which had lots of visitors no longer do - at least as a porportion of overall traffic, whereas other days now have proportionally more. I also notice that Softtester's traffic goes up and down inline with my main site's traffic - a bit like US and UK shares!
The only thing I can put this down to is that I've done a whole load more PAD file submissions in the past couple of months and I'm tapping into the same type of traffic visiting Softtester. Also Softtester is an old site in comparison with mine. In non-UK countries I've only begun to do well really since the end of July so perhaps now my visitor profile is beginning to match Softtester's more global audience.
by ML
In the last 5 to 6 weeks however, the pattern has changed. Days which had lots of visitors no longer do - at least as a porportion of overall traffic, whereas other days now have proportionally more. I also notice that Softtester's traffic goes up and down inline with my main site's traffic - a bit like US and UK shares!
The only thing I can put this down to is that I've done a whole load more PAD file submissions in the past couple of months and I'm tapping into the same type of traffic visiting Softtester. Also Softtester is an old site in comparison with mine. In non-UK countries I've only begun to do well really since the end of July so perhaps now my visitor profile is beginning to match Softtester's more global audience.
by ML
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